Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #71,178 of 84,120 nationally
Salcha Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 02090001700 · Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK · pop 937 · 34% of tract blocks fall in Salcha
Census tract 02090001700 belongs to Salcha, Alaska. It is home to 937 residents and scores 2.6/10, a lower reading for landlords. That places it near the bottom of the national scale, one of the easier tracts in the country for landlords.
About 18% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a modest level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $86,433 a year. Renters make up 8% of occupied homes.
Risk score
2.2
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 6%
Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units507
Renter share7.5%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate6.2%
Median income$86,433
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
38
th percentile
Low
Within state
28
th percentile
Low
National
15
th percentile
Very Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Salcha and the region
Centroid at 64.6243, -145.1380 · click any tract to drill in
Why Salcha scores 2.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Salcha
1.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Alaska legislature & governorship
2.2
Economic stress
6.2% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Salcha
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Salcha
2.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Salcha
1.8
How Salcha compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 12
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 17%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.3%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.1%Food insecurity
- 6.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 7.8%No health insurance
- 14.3%Frequent mental distress
- 29.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Salcha
What moves this score most is supply constraint at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Salcha, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Fairbanks North Star County average of 3.5 and below the Alaska statewide average of 3.9. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 12th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 8.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
Frequently asked
About tract 02090001700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 02090001700?
Census tract 02090001700 in Salcha scores 2.2/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the poverty rate in tract 02090001700?
6.2% of residents in tract 02090001700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 937.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 02090001700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 30th, household 6th, minority 17th, housing 22th.
Q4
What share of households in tract 02090001700 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.3% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q5
How does tract 02090001700 compare to Salcha overall?
Tract 02090001700 scores 2.2/10, lower than the parent city of Salcha at 2.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Salcha; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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